Clarification on writing MSMQ 4.0 message consumer application?

Question

I need to write an application (not a sevrice or web service) that consumes messages from an MSMQ 4.0 queue and want to make use of 4.0's features such as poison message handling. I see a lot of examples of WCF Services to consume messages from MSMQ queues, for example http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/39015, is this the sort of thing I need to be doing or is there a different way of handling MSMQ queues in applications?

Answer 1

There is also a .Net library, a COM lbrary and a win32 library.

Answer 2

here is some documentation and sample on Poison Message Handling in MSMQ 4.0 . I don't think that there is a major difference in this case, if you are creating a desktop application and not a service.